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Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1
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Peter Simons |
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Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1 |
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Date: |
05 Sep 2005 13:21:11 +0200 |
Reiner Steib writes:
>> The problem started to appear after I added
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>> (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
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>> to my ~/.emacs file. Now, I don't want multi-byte mode
>> enabled,
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> Why?
Because I had lots of trouble with Emacs choosing weird
encodings for _all_ kind of files when I had it enabled.
> Gnus doesn't work correctly in unibyte mode, AFAIK.
Well, using the proper charset identifiers as defined in
RFC1521 would fix the problem for me, as far as I can tell.
I don't see why that wouldn't be possible. What is the
rationale behind a choice like "latin1-iso-8859-1"? Isn't
that a pleonasm anyway?
Peter